Attack Surface Management

Attack Surface Management
  • ASM: Continuous practice to discover, monitor, and reduce an organization’s attack surface.
  • Attack Surface: Includes websites, servers, cloud services, APIs, apps, IoT devices, and third-party integrations.
  • Asset Discovery & Inventory: Automatically finds all assets, including shadow IT and unknown cloud resources.
  • Vulnerability Detection: Identifies misconfigurations, outdated software, exposed ports, and weak credentials.
  • Risk Prioritization: Assesses impact and likelihood of exploitation to focus remediation efforts.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Tracks asset changes and attack vectors over time.
  • External Threat Intelligence: Monitors dark web, malware campaigns, and hacker chatter related to assets.
  • Benefits: Full asset visibility, proactive risk reduction, reduced exposure, compliance support, and improved incident response.
  • Use Cases: Discover shadow IT, monitor SSL/TLS certificates, track exposed APIs/cloud storage, prioritize patching, map attack paths.
  • Leading Solutions: CrowdStrike Falcon Discover, BitSight ASM, RiskIQ Exposure, UpGuard ASM, CyCognito, Tenable.asm.